Data Sheet Pilot Light DR for Amazon Web Services ™ Automated Disaster Recovery for Multi-Tier Production Apps Pilot light disaster recovery is a perfect use case for the cloud. With cloud-based DR, companies avoid costly capital expenses and staffing costs are minimized as the responsibility for maintaining a dedicated disaster recovery site belongs to the cloud service provider. Monthly payments are based on the services used, making the ‘pay as you go’ model much easier to budget. More applications can be protected as a result. Companies also enjoy the ability to test more frequently and to scale up and down as services demand. For all of these reasons, CloudVelox offers Pilot Light DR for AWS – automated cloud-based disaster recovery for multi-tier, physical and virtual production apps. Automated Cloud Synchronization CloudVelox Pilot Light DR for AWS offers the fastest, safest and most cost-effective way to automate disaster recovery services leveraging public cloud services from AWS. Pilot Light DR analyzes the application systems and dependencies and blueprints the systems running the application in the data center. It then provisions required COST Ability to Scale Fixed Cost 2nd Data Center Instant Tests Cost Savings with AWS Resume Normal Pilot Light DR for AWS No capital investment No long term commitment No risky capacity planning Scale up and down to meet growth ‘Pay as you go’ usage-based cost Geographic locality control More apps can be protected storage resources in AWS and synchronizes these systems directly into the cloud storage resources, and continually updates them with any changes made to the systems running the application. This includes the full application stack and data, operating system files, configuration, kernel and patches and updates, and closed-box file servers, as well. The solution ensures that all of the information necessary to launch up-to-date copies of the application in the cloud are kept ready without the expense of maintaining running cloud virtual machines for each system required by the application. Pilot Light DR ensures that in the event of a disaster (or planned failover), the application systems in the cloud are up-to-date and ready for failover. In the event of a disaster or planned failover, all it takes to bring up the failover environment for an application is a Demand TIME Fig. 1. Pilot Light Architecture. “Ignite” instances as needed. Keep ‘pilot light’ on by continuously replicating and synchronizing app workload (group of machines, OS, libraries, binaries, configs, services, app stack and app data) 1 • • • • • • • One-Click Failover AWS Cost Failover Pilot Light DR Benefits “Pilot Light DR for AWS saved us 90% vs. the cost of a traditional DR site while also shrinking our recovery time objective by almost 90%.” Copyright © 2014 CloudVelox, Inc. All rights reserved. www.cloudvelox.com Pilot Light DR for AWS Data Sheet Disaster Testing mouse click. When failover is initiated, CloudVelox Pilot Light DR ‘ignites’ the AWS virtual machine images for each system required by the application. In just minutes complete applications are up and running in the cloud. To minimize cost, CloudVelox ensures that all of the up-to-date virtual images in the cloud are kept ready without any burden to the IT staff. For the majority of time spent between system outages or planned failovers, cloud service expenses are kept to a minimum. Most cloud service expenses for running systems only occur during the actual disaster event or planned failover. (See figure 1.) Disaster recovery sites benefit from thorough testing and monitoring. Pilot Light DR for AWS enables companies to easily test failovers for various purposes, such as system verification, compliance, staff training, and to perform maintenance on primary systems. The CloudVelox Administrator console provides a single-pane view of all the replicated systems running in the data center and the AWS cloud environment. Application services can be started or stopped in just a matter of minutes, with no specialized skills required. IT staff will enjoy the ease at which applications can be tested for failover without the need for lengthy disaster recovery instruction plans. They can realize fully operational systems in the cloud in minutes. Most cloud service expenses for running systems only occur during the actual disaster event or planned failover. Customer Site One Hybrid Cloud™ Software CloudVelox Pilot Light DR for AWS delivers automated cloud-based disaster recovery for multi-tier, physical and virtual production apps; the platform removes the Discovery Provisioning Service Initiation 1 3 5 2 4 Blueprinting Synchronization AD Public Clouds One Hybrid Cloud™ Software LDAP Fig. 2. CloudVelox Pilot Light DR for AWS is a robust hybrid cloud disaster recovery solution, based on the AWS Public Cloud infrastructure. The result is increased disaster resilience and agility at an unprecedented low cost as compared to a traditional dedicated discovery recovery site. 2 Pilot Light DR for AWS Copyright © 2014 CloudVelox, Inc. All rights reserved. www.cloudvelox.com Pilot Light DR for AWS complexity of performing an application failover or a complete disaster recovery, resulting in more reliable DR, reduced demand on IT staff and reduced cost. Pilot Light DR: Impact on RTO and RPO Pilot Light DR can address most enterprise apps needing comprehensive back-up, quick recovery and redundancy. Unlike active/active operating models required for very aggressive RTOs and RPOs, a pilot light model consists of a continuously updated environment (storage, application, database and management layers) cloned into AWS storage which can be "ignited" into production instances during an event or test. Depending upon bandwidth and the frequency of updates, RTOs and RPOs can be much more aggressive than traditional backup solutions. Active-Active Pilot Light 3 Pilot Light DR for AWS Data Sheet About CloudVelox CloudVelox is leading the development of hybrid cloud automation software based on its unified One Hybrid Cloud™ (OHC) Platform Architecture. The revolutionary OHC software delivers unprecedented agility and choice when it comes to the migration and operation of multi-tier applications in the cloud for use cases including development/test and disaster recovery. CloudVelox is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Load balance and DR Always On “Ignite” instances when needed Copyright © 2014 CloudVelox, Inc. All rights reserved. www.cloudvelox.com Key System Functions Key system functions Automated discovery, blueprinting, provisioning, synchronization, service initiation, and cloud integration. DR failover and testing Provides fast one-click failover of data center applications and systems for testing and services-augmented failback for outages. Data synchronization Remote images are kept up-to-date with changes to systems in the data center. Databases and NFS Servers are automatically synchronized into the cloud, with automatic encryption of all data volumes. Frequency of data synchronization Data is continually synchronized using asynchronous replication to generate application consistent system snapshots in the cloud. Secure Connection Establishes a secure network connection (using encryption) for provisioning and synchronization. Host firewall settings are customizable and automatically created and applied for each of the cloud systems. Extension of data center services to the Cloud External cloud environments can be integrated with Active Directory or LDAP platforms for authentication service integration. Operating systems supported Windows: Windows Server 2008 (32bit and 64bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit) Windows Server 2003 (32bit and 64bit) Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit and 64bit) Linux: RHEL 5.x, 6.x - both 32 bit and 64 bit CentOS 5.x, 6.x - both 32 bit and 64 bit Ubuntu 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x - both 32 bit and 64 bit Amazon Linux (2013.03) - both 32 bit and 64 bit Databases supported MySQL, Oracle, postgres, and nosql databases are supported. OHC also ships with backup/restore mechanisms for MySQL. On Windows, Microsoft SQL Server. Bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements can vary based on the size of an application and the size and frequency of updates. Users can throttle bandwidth usage, based on operating requirements. CloudVelox, 2350 Mission College Blvd. Suite 1250, Santa Clara, CA 95054 www.cloudvelox.com. Copyright © 2014 CloudVelox, Inc. All rights reserved. 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